Pros
Great work-life balance. Very competitive pay and industry-leading employee benefits, an amazing campus with shuttle buses, an onsite gym, dozens of delicious cafeterias, Ho Ho parties, onsite dental daycare nail and spa salon golf truck. Sabbaticals every 6 years.
Cons
Many great scientists left over the years the ones who stayed often tended to be arrogant, incompetent, and still live in their bubble, which resulted in below-than-industry-average R&D productivity. There have been so many failures with limited success in recent years, Lampa, lebri, Etro, PTX-2, Ipat, pralsetinib, cancer vaccine, and sky06. You can't always blame Roche for failures. Rarely was management held accountable for the horrible decision-making and the dysfunctional reward system